He was the best❤️He always said if you want to write a good song get in the car and do a road trip and that’s how he wrote this song. What a wonderful gentleman.
@@aydankhaliq2967 Even if that comment was fake, why do you doubt his grandkids are out there somewhere, possibly watching their grandad's performances? He had 5 kids, some of them must've had kids of their own.
How lucky you are to have Bobby as your granddad. You have a life time of stories and memories. I enjoyed watching your granddad on the TV show "Emergency". I loved it when it was on in the "70's" and I watch it now, all the reruns. You have a lot to be proud of. ❤❤❤🎉🎉
Gotta say, that guitar playing is straight bebop influence, and it's no wonder Bobby Troup never got the huge superstar status that others did. Too jazzy for the mainstream. But damned awesome.
+kilts4u2 On one of the first shows, "Dr. Early" is playing the piano with "Dixie" singing. Too bad they didn't include more of that. Bobby also appeared in "Adam 12" and "Dragnet" as minor characters. He is indeed very talented.
Julie London was married to Jack Webb and had two daughters. Jack was very appreciative that Bobby was a good stepfather to the kids and cast him on shows he produced.
Before seeing this video, I had no idea Bobby Troup had such musical talent !!! He was great in the T.V. shows he was in, and always seemed like a guy who could be a good friend... RIP Mr. Bobby Troup...
I knew Bobby Troup from 1966 until his death in 1999. He was a great song writer and sang in a nightclub jazz manner. Of course, he wrote many of Julie London's songs, Julie and Bobby were married in 1960 but engaged for over 8 years - after her divorce from Jack Webb. They were wonderful people. They had a large home in Encino, CA and all who were liked by them were always welcome to stop by at any time. Julie London was one of the most unique and under appreciated singers of all time. She was also the most beautiful woman I ever knew throughout her entire life. Great memories.The saying "Cry Me a River" came from her hit song of the same name.
That is a very nice remembrance. I recall Bobby from three episodes of Perry Mason. The one that stick in my mind is The Case of the Jaded Joker. Troup plays a kind of beatnik piano player, who likes to talk in the jive lingo of the era. Great supporting performance.
Neither Bobby Troup nor Julie London received the recognition they deserved. Both very talented in their crafts - and so memorable on Emergency, which was my favorite show as a kid.
What a great song and me and my 5 year old daughter just took a road trip and hit Route 66 in Gallup through Arizona we played this song for hours and what memories we made! Man what a trip! What a great piece of Americana! Maybe the best ever! History and greatness. What a great country!
Just heard this on todays "google doodle" about route 66. I'd heard the song before but not this version. I absolutely LOVE the guitar playing in this. I'm a guitarist so biased - but it's just brilliant, had to track down who it was that did this version (no idea this was the original!).
used Shazam to find this song and it gave me this ルート66 (Live) Julie London 😂 didn't have anything else to go on so I just typed in Julie London route 66 and I found it 😂
@@laboon344 Yes I like rock / hard rock but this arrangement is really good with just the clarity of his voice and laid back backing. The Chuck Berry version .. well as Marty McFly might say, I'm maybe not read for that yet :P
Route 66. One of my favorite shows and one of my favorite songs. And Bobby Troupe and Julie London are still two of my favorite Actors. R.I.P. Bob and Julie. Thanks for the outstanding acting. And thank you Bobby for the Route 66 song. I miss all of you. That includes Jack Webb and Martin Milner.
With great guitarist dennis budimer. An l.a. native who has played with just about everyone. Still living in los angeles. You can see the full hour long show on youtube with troup and trio playing a fifteen minute set halfway through the show. Great stuff. Thanks for posting!
He sang it way before he actually was a doctor on Emergency in the 1970s. He was actually Dr Joe Early of Rampart Hospital. He married Julie London who was actually a head nurse McCall of Emergency. Both are actually passed away decades ago. 🏥😱👍🤗👌
They both starred on the 70's TV show EMERGENCY! (Bobby Troupe played a doctor, Julie London a nurse). He wrote the similar sounding theme song for THAT DARN CAT!
Anytime, jamlaw! Your grandfather was quite a musician, but I wish he had more recognition than he received during his lifetime. However, (Get Your Kicks on) Route 66 remains an immortal tribute to a legendary highway, and America itself.
Oh, I am SO with you on that sentiment. This is great in every way. What a talent. And just cool, easy--I love it! You simply do not hear cool and easy these days--too much oversinging & egotistical ranting. OK, there are a few exceptions--Norah Jones, Diana Krall, and Harry Connick, Jr. But for the most part . . .
Discovered this talented guy while reading "Just the Facts Ma'am" the Jack Webb bio. After his divorce from Julie London she became a club circuit singer and did several films. Bobby Troupe was her mentor.
Fun fact: When the Northridge earthquake hit Los Angeles in January 1994, scientists initially stated that it registered a 6.6 on the Richter scale. So just for kicks, somebody spray painted “Get your kicks on Route 6.6” on a sound wall of the Santa Monica freeway, which takes traffic from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica and the end of Route 66. The magnitude was since changed to 6.7, but I thought the graffiti was just SO L.A.
Great to hear the song by the man who actually wrote it ! But sad to see that Route 66 is now lined with ghost towns, deserted gasoline stations, bankrupt business and deserted cracked tarmacked stretches of road. But still a great road trip in my mind :)
Knock out take by all involved. Bobby Troup. There was never better diction in American music. Precision groove and soul. No wonder Julie London fell like a bridge!
This is the best version of this song. Naturally, Mr. Troup knew how his song should be played. He wanted Nat Cole to do it, which he did, second best. But nobody played it like Bobby.
They did a lot together. Rawhide episode for one. Bobby on Dragnet as bartender. Bobby on Ironside at the piano. Lots more if I could remember some more of them.
He was my dad’s friend and we would find him in California playing in clubs when we traveled there . His name was Colin Robbie and the store delivered my grandma a Chickering piano close to Christmas in the 1930s
He not only wrote this song, he played "Dr. Joe Early" on the TV show "Emergency!". His real-life wife Julie London (a noted torch song singer in her own right) played "Nurse Dixie McCall" on the same show.
Yes to both. Bobby and Julie were married to each other. It was the second marriage for both. And they both were stars on "Emergency". Juile's first husband was Dragnet's Jack Webb, who was a producer of "Emergency". Bet Bobby felt uncomfortable with that. Bobby's first wife was the one who gave him the line "Get your kicks on Route 66", which became the song we all love.
This version is super cool... I really like. I will say Chuck Berry's version was the most important, because the Rolling Stones covered a lot of Chuck Berry songs and one of them was Route 66!!
Hi Stan, I would have agreed with you but I looked on RU-vid for "A Taste of Honey" (Herb Alpert) and found 40 then stopped searching there were some many different ones.
So funny, but my into to both Bobby Troup and Julie London was when they starred in the early 70's show "Emergency". Julie was "Nurse Dix" and Bobby played a Dr. in the ER. I was about 10 and loved the show and my mother told me who they were which meant nothing at the time. Love em both!
